Minor Notes.
Selleridge.—The story of the author who was charged by his publisher for selleridge, and thought it for selling his books, whereas it was storing them in a cellar, is given by Thomas Moore in his Diary, lately published, upon the authority of Coleridge. It is to be found, much better told, in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.
Uneda.
Philadelphia.
Tombs of Bishops.—The following bishops, whose bodies were interred elsewhere, had or have tombs in the several cathedrals in which their hearts were buried:—William de Longchamp, William de Kilkenny, Cardinal Louis de Luxembourg, at Ely; Peter de Aquâ Blancâ, at Aquablanca, in Savoy; Thomas Cantilupe, at Ashridge, Bucks (Hereford); Ethelmar (Winton), at Winchester; Thomas Savage (York), at Macclesfield; Robert Stichelles (Durham), at Durham.
Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.
Durham.
Lines on visiting the Portico of Beau Nash's Palace, Bath.—
And here he liv'd, and here he reign'd,
And hither oft shall strangers stray;
To muse with joy on native worth,
And mourn those pleasures fled for aye.
Alas! that he, whose days were spent
In catering for the public weal,
Should, in the eventide of life,
Be destin'd sad distress to feel.
An ever open heart and hand,
With ear ne'er closed to sorrow's tale,
Exalts the man, and o'er his faults
Draws the impenetrable veil.
L. M. Thornton.
Bath.
Acrostic in Ash Church, Kent.—The following acrostic is from a brass in Ash Church, Kent. It is perhaps curious only from the fact of its being unusual to inscribe this kind of verse on sepulchral monuments. The capital letters at the commencement of each line are given as in the original:
"
John Brooke of the parish of Ashe
Only he is nowe gone.
His days are past, his corps is layd
Now under this marble stone.
Brookstrete he was the honor of,
Robd now it is of name,
Only because he had no sede
Or children to have the same;
Knowing that all must passe away,
Even when God will, none can denay.
"He passed to God in the yere of Grace
One thousand fyve hundredth ffower score and two it was,
The sixteenthe daye of January, I tell now playne,
The five-and-twentieth yere of Elizabeth rayne."
Fras. Brent.
Sandgate.
A Hint to Publishers.—The present period is remarkable for its numerous reprints of our poets and standard writers. However excellent these may be, there is often a great drawback, viz. that one must purchase an author's entire works, and cannot get a favourite poem or treatise separately.
What I would suggest is, that a separate title-page be prefixed to every poem or treatise in an
author's works, and that they be sold collectively or separately at the purchaser's option. Thus few would encumber themselves with the entire works of Dryden, but many would gladly purchase some of his poems if they could be had separately.
These remarks are still more applicable to encyclopædias. The Encycl. Metropol. was a step in the right direction; and henceforth we may hope to have each article sold separately in octavo volumes. Is there no chance, amid all these reprints, of our seeing Heywood, Crashaw, Southwell, Habington, Daniel, or Drummond of Hawthornden?
Mariconda.
Uhland, the German Poet.—Mr. Mitchell, in his speech at New York, is said to have stated that Uhland, the German poet, had become an exile, and was now in Ohio. This is a mistake; for Uhland is now living in his native Würtemberg, and is reported in the papers to have quite recently declined a civic honour proposed to be conferred on him by the King of Prussia at the suggestion of Baron Humboldt.
J. M.
Oxford.
Virgilian Inscription for an Infant School.—
"... Auditæ voces, vagitus et ingens,
Infantumque animæ flentes, in limine primo."
Æn. VI. 426.
Anon.